The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is committed to scientific integrity, academic scholarship, and international collaboration. We have curated this specialized repository featuring essential materials from partner organizations across the scholarly ecosystem to support the community in engaging with publishing ethics. Scholarly communications and publishing organizations are invited to collaborate by contributing content, programming, or resources.
American Chemical Society
10 Tips for Ethical Authorship
ACS Author Lab: Module 7: Adhere to Ethical Guidelines
ACS Reviewer Lab: Module 2: Ethics in Peer Review
Publishing Your Research 101 video series
- Episode 5, part 1: Ethical considerations for authors
- Episode 5, part 2: Ethical considerations for reviewers
AUPresses
Best Practices for Peer Review of Scholarly Books
Coalition for Diversity in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC)
- Antiracism Toolkit for Allies
- Antiracism Toolkit for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color
- Antiracism Toolkit for Organizations
Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
Diversity and inclusivity discussion document
This guidance serves to begin the process of addressing DEI issues in scholarly publishing, with initial recommendations for promoting social justice and equality within scholarly publishing.
Diversity, equity and inclusion in scholarly research and publishing, COPE seminar 2021
The impact of discriminatory practices in editorial processes and peer review, promoting social justice and equality in scholarly publishing, best practices around identity and name changes, including examples of implementation, and addressing historical offensive content.
Diversifying editorial boards
This resource provides practical strategies and best practices for building diverse editorial boards that represent a wide range of backgrounds, cultures, experiences, genders, career stages, and geographic locations.
Bias in peer review webinar
This COPE Forum discussion explores strategies for mitigating bias in the peer review process, focusing on practical approaches to diversifying editorial and reviewer pools, managing bias in review workflows, and ensuring diverse reference citations
European Association of Science Editors (EASE)
EASE Ethics Checklist for Authors
The EASE Ethics Checklist for Authors is intended for use by authors submitting to scientific journals during or soon after manuscript submission, to make formal declarations of the ethical integrity of the research, and provide information on any issues which must be provided to editorial offices.
EASE Standard Retraction Form
This retraction template checklist was designed to support editors when preparing a retraction notice, and help researchers analyze retractions
EASE Editorial School for journal editors
This four-module online training course has been designed in a collaboration between our Training Committee and our Regional Chapters. The course is aimed at helping our member editors make their journals more visible, impactful, and full of engaging material. Using case studies, the course challenges participants to discuss and identify suitable solutions for their own journal environments.
Webinar: The Dark Side of Science: Misconduct in Biomedical Research
Elisabeth Bik is an image forensics detective who left her paid job in industry to search for and report biomedical articles that contain errors or data of concern. She speaks about misconduct in this free webinar from EASE.
GW Ethics in Publishing Conference
The annual GW Ethics in Publishing Conference explores a wide range of ethical issues in publishing. Annual themes have included Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility and Equitable Publishing. Organized and hosted by the Graduate Program in Publishing, College of Professional Studies, George Washington University.
Journal of Ethics in Publishing
The GW Journal of Ethics in Publishing (GWJEP) is published by the Graduate Program in Publishing, College of Professional Studies, at The George Washington University. This student-managed publication is completely open-access—free for anyone to access and free for anyone to publish. We welcome articles, case studies, book reviews, commentaries, and other publications from publishing, library, and communication professionals, students, scholars, and specialists on a wide range of topics involving ethical issues in publishing, including but not limited to publishing equity, research integrity, diversity and inclusion, accessibility, peer review practices, open access, sustainability, publishing metrics, workflows, artificial intelligence, and more.
Learned Publishing
Frandsen, T.F. (2022), Authors publishing repeatedly in predatory journals: An analysis of Scopus articles. Learned Publishing. <>https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1489
Jiang, X. and Shi, Y. (2022), Editorial bias in top-tier education journals: Factors influencing publishable scholarship in China. Learned Publishing. <>https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1486
Zhang, L., Wei, Y., Sivertsen, G. and Huang, Y. (2022), The motivations and criteria behind China’s list of questionable journals. Learned Publishing. <>https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1456
Roscoe, J. (2022), The need for accelerated change in diversity, equity and inclusion in publishing and learned societies. Learned Publishing. <>https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1457
Helgesson, G., Radun, I., Radun, J. and Nilsonne, G. (2022), Editors publishing in their own journals: A systematic review of prevalence and a discussion of normative aspects. Learned Publishing, 35: 229-240. <>https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1449
Jorm, A.F. (2022), Publons as a source of high volume, poorly targeted reviewer requests: The need for better standards of practice by publishers. Learned Publishing, 35: 285-287. <>https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1420
Teixeira da Silva, J.A. and Vuong, Q.-H. (2022), Fortification of retraction notices to improve their transparency and usefulness. Learned Publishing, 35: 292-299. <>https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1409
MacFarlane, A. (2022), The importance of effective data sharing and reuse to funders and others supporting research. Learned Publishing, 35: 71-74. <>https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1443
Herbet, M.-E., Leonard, J., Santangelo, M.G. and Albaret, L. (2022), Dissimulate or disseminate? A survey on the fate of negative results. Learned Publishing, 35: 16-29. <>https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1438
Araújo, R.J., Shideler, G.S. and Reamer, M.B. (2021), Chief editors in aquatic science and communication are more likely to oversee editorial boards from their own regions. Learned Publishing, 34: 547-557. <>https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1393
Zhu, H. (2021), Home country bias in academic publishing: A case study of the New England Journal of Medicine. Learned Publishing, 34: 578-584. <>https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1404
Ndungu, M.W. (2021), Scholarly journal publishing standards, policies and guidelines. Learned Publishing, 34: 612-621. <>https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1410
Baveye, P.C. (2021), Objectivity of the peer-review process: Enduring myth, reality, and possible remedies. Learned Publishing, 34: 696-700. <>https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1414
Rowley, J. and Sbaffi, L. (2021), Investigating gender differences in journal selection decisions: A survey of academic researchers. Learned Publishing, 34: 294-304. <>https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1345
Miao, W. and Huang, Y. (2021), Politics matters: The power dynamics behind Chinese English-language humanities and social science journals. Learned Publishing, 34: 331-338. <>https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1364
Rousi, A.M. (2021), Ethical review and informed consent guidelines of high impact anthropology, business, and education research journals. Learned Publishing, 34: 339-346. <>https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1368
Moskovitz, C. (2021), Standardizing terminology for text recycling in research writing. Learned Publishing, 34: 370-378. <>https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1372
Kendall, G. (2021), Beall’s legacy in the battle against predatory publishers. Learned Publishing, 34: 379-388. <>https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1374
Inouye, K. and Mills, D. (2021), Fear of the academic fake? Journal editorials and the amplification of the ‘predatory publishing’ discourse. Learned Publishing, 34: 396-406. https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1377
Library Publishing Coalition
Ethical Framework for Library Publishing
Library publishing is distinguished in part from other types of scholarly publishing by a focus on adherence to the values and ethics of librarianship. An Ethical Framework for Library Publishing supports good practice in this area by providing resources and guidance in several ethical areas important to library publishers. Version 1.0 (published July 2018) covers publishing practice; accessibility; diversity, equity, and inclusion; privacy and analytics; and academic and intellectual freedom.
Paths in Publishing
Paths in Publishing (PIP) is a free mentorship program to help prepare early-career applicants (moving into or out of entry-level jobs) for applying to, interviewing for, and negotiating new positions in scholarly publishing. Writing cover letters and interviewing often feels like work that one should inherently know how to do, but the reality is that many hiring committees are looking for specific things that may not be evident in the job ad. Both writing cover letters and interviewing are skills that can be practiced and, with guidance, made less stressful and more productive.
